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Shouldn't “decursus†be accusative in Psalm 1:3?
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(Psalm 1:3, Clementine Vulgate) Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo: et folium ejus non defluet; et omnia quæcumque faciet prosperabuntur.
The Douay-Rheims translates this into English as, "And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters . . ."
How should decursus be parsed in this verse?
According to Wiktionary, secus is a preposition taking an accusative, but decursus doesn't look like it is in accusative form to me. What am I missing?
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(Psalm 1:3, Clementine Vulgate) Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo: et folium ejus non defluet; et omnia quæcumque faciet prosperabuntur.
The Douay-Rheims translates this into English as, "And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters . . ."
How should decursus be parsed in this verse?
According to Wiktionary, secus is a preposition taking an accusative, but decursus doesn't look like it is in accusative form to me. What am I missing?
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It is accusative, but of 4th declension and plural. Literally,'beside the downward courses of the waters.'
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(Psalm 1:3, Clementine Vulgate) Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo: et folium ejus non defluet; et omnia quæcumque faciet prosperabuntur.
The Douay-Rheims translates this into English as, "And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters . . ."
How should decursus be parsed in this verse?
According to Wiktionary, secus is a preposition taking an accusative, but decursus doesn't look like it is in accusative form to me. What am I missing?
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(Psalm 1:3, Clementine Vulgate) Et erit tamquam lignum quod plantatum est secus decursus aquarum, quod fructum suum dabit in tempore suo: et folium ejus non defluet; et omnia quæcumque faciet prosperabuntur.
The Douay-Rheims translates this into English as, "And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters . . ."
How should decursus be parsed in this verse?
According to Wiktionary, secus is a preposition taking an accusative, but decursus doesn't look like it is in accusative form to me. What am I missing?
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It is accusative, but of 4th declension and plural. Literally,'beside the downward courses of the waters.'
– Tom Cotton
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It is accusative, but of 4th declension and plural. Literally,'beside the downward courses of the waters.'
– Tom Cotton
7 hours ago
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It is accusative, but of 4th declension and plural. Literally,'beside the downward courses of the waters.'
– Tom Cotton
7 hours ago
It is accusative, but of 4th declension and plural. Literally,'beside the downward courses of the waters.'
– Tom Cotton
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The noun decursus belongs to the fourth declension, not the second. You know this because, if you look it up in a dictionary, the two forms that are given (the 'principal parts') will be dēcursus, -ūs, not dēcursus, -ī. Therefore, in your passage, decursus is, in fact, accusative, but plural (= dēcursūs).
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The noun decursus belongs to the fourth declension, not the second. You know this because, if you look it up in a dictionary, the two forms that are given (the 'principal parts') will be dēcursus, -ūs, not dēcursus, -ī. Therefore, in your passage, decursus is, in fact, accusative, but plural (= dēcursūs).
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The noun decursus belongs to the fourth declension, not the second. You know this because, if you look it up in a dictionary, the two forms that are given (the 'principal parts') will be dēcursus, -ūs, not dēcursus, -ī. Therefore, in your passage, decursus is, in fact, accusative, but plural (= dēcursūs).
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The noun decursus belongs to the fourth declension, not the second. You know this because, if you look it up in a dictionary, the two forms that are given (the 'principal parts') will be dēcursus, -ūs, not dēcursus, -ī. Therefore, in your passage, decursus is, in fact, accusative, but plural (= dēcursūs).
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The noun decursus belongs to the fourth declension, not the second. You know this because, if you look it up in a dictionary, the two forms that are given (the 'principal parts') will be dēcursus, -ūs, not dēcursus, -ī. Therefore, in your passage, decursus is, in fact, accusative, but plural (= dēcursūs).
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answered 7 hours ago
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It is accusative, but of 4th declension and plural. Literally,'beside the downward courses of the waters.'
– Tom Cotton
7 hours ago